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The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is being accused of not furnishing several laid-off or severed employees of statutory corporations with their unemployment benefits.
The charge has come from general secretary of Unity Workers’ Union (UWU), Senator Caswell Franklyn, who said this was only causing more hardship to Barbadians during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking during yesterday’s Down To Brass Tacks radio call-in programme on Starcom Network, he said under the National Insurance and Social Security (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2018, workers employed by any statutory board to which the Pensions Act CAP 25 applied, and any board specified in the schedule of the Statutory Board (Pension) Act CAP 384, were now entitled to receive unemployment or sickness benefits if they had been appointed.
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It appears that Class 4 pupils at Reynold Weekes Primary School will not be joining the thousands of other children sitting today’s Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Examination (BSSEE).
One of them tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.
A letter addressed to parents from principal Anderson Bishop stated that the students would have to take an alternative test next month.
“Please be informed that a Class 4 student has tested positive for COVID-19. Contact tracing has already started with select class members. Unfortunately, this contact tracing may not be completed by Wednesday, July 28, 2021.
“To this end, the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Wellness, after considering multiple options, is now recommending that all students of Class 4 . . . write the alternative BSSEE scheduled for 11 August 2021,” it said.
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Barbados’ ageing population, high rate of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and low vaccination rate could be the recipe for a local variant of COVID-19, warns president of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) Dr Lynda Williams.
Although Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George confirmed earlier this month that the Alpha variant (the British strain of COVID-19) was “fairly commonplace” in Barbados, she is renewing calls for a greater variant surveillance programme to determine what other strains are possibly circulating in the island.
Williams, a guest on
programme
yesterday, stressed the importance of knowing whether variants such as the highly-infectious Delta was prevalent, as that would determine if enough restrictions were in place to prevent further spread.
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Starcom Network is reaffirming its commitment to maintaining a high standard on the airwaves.
This morning, during the signing of a declaration to this effect at its River Road, St Michael office, Station Manager Anthony Greene said it was important to self-regulate their operations in light of the recent surge of gun violence and the influence of the media.
“When we have conversations like what has been happening recently around crime and violence, and music and the Trojan Riddim [Mix] . . . we have to stop and ask ourselves if we are contributing to this, can we be better at what we do?